Word: cha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adolescent. Chief among these starlets is Amber Von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick), a snooty princess whose dad (Sonny Bono) is the "richest man in East Baltimore" and whose mom (Debbie Harry), Miss Soft Crab of 1945, pours all her ambition into Amber. Every afternoon the pouty miss must practice the cha-cha and the Mashed Potato under Mom's eagle eye. "I want you to get more close-ups on that show," Mom admonishes, "or I'm sending you to Catholic school!" Eeuuuu...
...controversy over feeding tubes, said J. Stuart Showalter, of CHA's legal department, is becoming one of the most perplexing ethical issues of the 1980s and '90s. Declared he: "Emotions rise, rhetoric becomes strident, and even among the experts there is no consensus." The problem is especially thorny for Roman Catholic institutions, because many right-to-lifers are demanding new laws against what they see as killing by "starvation." Aiming occasional barbs at the strict pro-life stance, most of those who met in Boston insisted that Catholic tradition accepts an end to feeding in medically hopeless cases...
Dominican Theologian Kevin O'Rourke, director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at St. Louis University, declared at the CHA conference that since the 16th century, Catholic thinkers have allowed withholding of life support in some cases. O'Rourke and others cite a 1957 speech in which Pope Pius XII said , that life-sustaining methods are morally required only when they "do not involve any grave burdens for oneself or another...
...sick, which is a moral requirement for everyone? The New Jersey bishops' brief in the Jobes case insists that medical treatments are wholly different from food and fluids, which "are basic to human life." Nutrition, say the bishops, "must always be provided to a patient." But as the CHA experts saw it, neither the Vatican nor the U.S. bishops' conference takes such an absolute stand...
...graves by hand. Officials began to fear that the bloated carcasses of cows, goats, pigs and chickens rotting in the equatorial heat would lead to a cholera or typhoid epidemic. Army efforts were further hampered by the handful of survivors who refused to leave their lifeless villages. In Cha, Kumba Ndongabang sat beneath a thatched platform, staring at the two graves where his five wives are now buried. "All my women die," he grieved, his voice rising and falling with the simple rhythms of the native Pidgin English. "If I go, who make home for me? Where I go? Where...